POP UP CINEMA BRIGHTON
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
WEEKLY FILM SCREENINGS IN BRIGHTON
UPCOMING EVENTS
7.40PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13TH
CAMERON CROWE'S
JERRY MAGUIRE
30TH ANNIVERSARY
4K RESTORATION
At a time when independent filmmaking reigned supreme and dominated the awards season, Jerry Maguire was the rare major studio production to break through with indie-minded voters and emerge a major winner. A modern classic, Cameron Crowe’s film is so much more than just another ’90s rom-com. It strikes the perfect balance between cynicism and sweetness, making it the finest film in the genre since When Harry Met Sally, while reaching for something deeper: a story about the fear of truly living, the courage to follow your convictions, and the struggle to define yourself in an indifferent world.
Jerry Maguire is the role Tom Cruise was born to play. Wisely drawing on the actor’s earnest, vulnerable side, Crowe subverts the cocky confidence and brooding intensity that had defined so many of Cruise’s earlier performances. Here is a man who is no longer entirely sure of himself, his success, or what success even means. A high-powered sports agent in the midst of a crisis of conscience, Maguire suddenly finds himself stripped of his status as a kingpin of the industry, left clinging by “a very thin thread” to the one client willing to stick with him: egocentric, no-hoper quarterback Rod Tidwell, played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in an electrifying, Oscar-winning performance. The only employee prepared to follow Jerry into the unknown is Dorothy Boyd, brought to life by Renée Zellweger in her career-breakthrough role. A single mother balancing the demands of raising her young son with her own hopes and ambitions, Dorothy is drawn to Jerry’s moment of moral clarity, even as she risks everything by believing in him.
Written and directed by Crowe, whose remarkable body of work includes Say Anything…, Singles, Vanilla Sky and, of course, Almost Famous, the film bears all the hallmarks this director who is key figure in both the worlds of music and cinema. Crowe’s own extraordinary journey, from opportunist teenage journalist at Rolling Stone (as told in Crowe's Almost Famous, he's the main character) to eventually associate editor of the magazine in later life, creating some of the most defining chronicles of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s, lends the film a distinctive cultural authenticity, a lived-in quality that few Hollywood productions can replicate.
As with all the best Crowe films, the music is integral to the experience. The soundtrack is a beautifully curated collection of songs, featuring contributions from his then-wife Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart, alongside an inspired selection of artists that only Crowe could curate. The visual storytelling is equally assured, courtesy of legendary cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, whose work with Steven Spielberg has included every one of the director’s feature films since Schindler’s List in 1993. An exceptional supporting cast, including Kelly Preston, Jerry O’Connell (Stand by Me), Bonnie Hunt (The Green Mile), Regina King (Boyz n the Hood), Jonathan Lipnicki and Todd Louiso (High Fidelity), adds further depth, while a series of cameos from figures in Crowe’s own cultural orbit lends the film an extra layer of personality and charm. The result is a world that feels wonderfully textured, spontaneous and authentic.
Ultimately, Jerry Maguire is a genuinely brilliant piece of cinema: a film that champions personal conviction over corporate conformity and understands that forging meaningful human connections is a complicated, imperfect and often messy business. Beneath the romance and the comedy lies a deeply affecting portrait of people trying to find their place in the world, learning that success means little without a sense of purpose, and that genuine connection requires us to be vulnerable enough to let others in.
A worldwide smash that grossed $274 million against a $50 million budget, Jerry Maguire also gave us some of the most enduringly quotable lines in modern cinema, embedding itself firmly in the pop-culture lexicon. Thirty years on, its wit, warmth and emotional honesty remain undiminished. A bona fide classic that deserves to be rediscovered, revisited and, above all, experienced on the big screen for its 30th anniversary.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20TH
DAVID CRONENBERG'S
VIDEODROME
4K RESTORATION
Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival (with two more nights soon to be announced) celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights.
Body horror maestro David Cronenberg, the visionary behind The Fly, Crash, Scanners and A History of Violence, delivers another iconic and idiosyncratic masterpiece of fleshy fear with Videodrome, a nightmarish exploration of the VHS age that feels even more disturbingly relevant in the era of smartphones.
A film about society’s addiction to screens, Videodrome’s parallels with 2026 are impossible to ignore. When Toronto television programmer Max Renn (James Woods), on the hunt for fresh material for his sleazy cable station, stumbles across an underground broadcast filled with gratuitous torture and punishment, he thinks he may have found his next big hit. But as he tracks down the show’s producers, Max finds himself drawn into a hallucinatory world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochism and bodily transformations, where the boundaries between reality and hallucination begin to dissolve.
Starring James Woods (Once Upon a Time in America, Casino) and Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry, Videodrome remains one of the most stylish and prescient films of the 1980s. Featuring astonishing practical make-up effects from Academy Award-winning legend Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London), squalid atmospherics, and a razor-sharp vision of how screens can transcend mere entertainment to reshape reality and warp the minds of their viewers, this is essential viewing in all its darkly thrilling, premonitory Cronenbergian glory.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21ST
KATHRYN BIGELOW'S
POINT BREAK
4K RESTORATION
Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights.
Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, and the first woman to direct a film that won Best Picture (for 2009’s The Hurt Locker), first rose to prominence with a string of action-packed thrillers. Among them was this beloved 1991 cult classic starring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) and Patrick Swayze (Road House).
In this delightfully camp and dynamically paced action classic, a gang of bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents (thanks to their creative rubber mask disguises of Reagan, Nixon, Carter and LBJ) are running riot across the banks of Southern California. FBI agent Johnny Utah (Reeves), working alongside veteran agent Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey, Lethal Weapon), is tasked with infiltrating the local surfing community to gather intelligence on the gang. There, he encounters charismatic and enigmatic surf guru Bodhi (Swayze), whom he begins to suspect may be involved. But as Johnny gets closer to cracking the case, his growing feelings for Tyler (Lori Petty, Tank Girl), a free-spirited surfer who may herself be connected to the gang, threaten to complicate his mission.
Packed with brilliantly choreographed action sequences, gloriously outrageous dialogue and an unmistakable early-'90s zeitgeist, Point Break is a heady cocktail of high-octane set pieces, simmering homoeroticism, and effortlessly cool bravado.
Recently featured in a special season at the British Film Institute, Point Break remains a superlative example of its genre. Not only has it increasingly gathered an audience over the decades, it has also earned something relatively rare for an action film: genuine critical acclaim. A recent review in The Times described it as "near perfect", while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian hailed it as "an enduring cult gem".
This newly restored 4K version at VHS Fest provides an unmissable opportunity to experience this iconic adrenaline-fuelled bromance crime thriller as it surfs its way back onto the big screen.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22ND
JIM HENSON & FRANZ OZ'S
THE DARK CRYSTAL
4K RESTORATION
Join us for VHS Fest, a special three night film festival celebrating films that represent the classic era of VHS video. Each night you can take a stroll through our life size VHS rental store, indulge in some retro gaming, and then enjoy a cult classic film from the era on the big screen. Tickets for individual nights are available as well as a discounted festival ticket for all three nights.
The spectacular creation of two screen geniuses, co-directors Jim Henson and Frank Oz, The Dark Crystal remains one of the most memorable, atmospheric and beautifully crafted fantasy films of the 1980s.
Jim Henson, the creative force behind The Muppets, Fraggle Rock and many of the beloved characters of Sesame Street, would go on to create another fantasy classic, Labyrinth (starring David Bowie), but first came this outrageously brilliant collaboration with Frank Oz. A legendary puppeteer and the voice behind Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover, as well as Yoda in Star Wars, Oz would also establish himself as a hugely successful filmmaker, directing a string of hit and cult favourites including Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and What About Bob?
The monumental 1982 coming together of Henson and Oz, alongside Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and legendary concept designer Brian Froud (who would also design Labyrinth), created a perfect storm of creative talent. The result was an extraordinary world of mystery and wonder, brought to life through some of the most pioneering and astonishing puppetry ever committed to film (without a single human character in sight).
Widely regarded as one of the great fantasy films of all time, The Dark Crystal follows Jen, a young Gelfling who is forced to leave his home and embark on an epic quest to find a missing shard of the Dark Crystal. This powerful fragment holds the key to restoring balance to the universe. But time is running out: the grotesque, power-hungry Skeksis are intent on exploiting the Crystal's dark power and plunging the world into an age of evil.
Stunning to behold and almost baffling in its level of technical achievement, The Dark Crystal is an endlessly enchanting experience. A visual feast rooted in mythology, folklore and the darker corners of fairy tales, it features an unforgettable cast of characters, extraordinary creature performances and iconic production design. A true VHS-era classic, it has since spawned a lavish 100 million dollar Netflix prequel series inspiring a as well as an ever growing, fiercely devoted, worldwide following enthralled by its groundbreaking craftsmanship and utterly original vision.
Experience this extraordinary fantasy masterpiece in a gorgeous new 4K restoration, on the final evening of VHS Fest.
7.30PM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
NEW RELEASE SPECIAL
One of the most anticipated White Wall screenings of 2026, The Love That Remains is a delicately woven family drama that pushes against cinematic convention and instead offers a deliberately non-sensationalist tableau of modern familial dynamics, infusing its fractured narrative with an ethereal sensation layered over its characters' distinctly quotidian lifestyles.
The Love That Remains is a deliberately gentle, deeply intimate, slyly humorous look at love and separation that allows odd sensations and human compassion to flourish throughout.
Director Hlynur Pálmason’s story follows Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir), a sculptor and visual artist (who works with themes of decomposition and decay), and her husband, Magnús (Sverrir Gudnason), who is often away for weeks at a time enduring the frigid conditions aboard an industrial fishing trawler. Three children, a dog and a few chickens complete the family unit, whom we now track through the course of the year as Anna and Magnús attempt to work through the uncertain terrain of their marital separation.
Undoubtedly melancholic and drifting, it's also a remarkably funny and insightful film that confidently wrong-foots you as it charts the ordinary, day-to-day lives of the family, with a feeling that something bizarre and surreal could break through at any moment.
Gorgeously shot on 35mm film, the imagery of the beautiful and barren Icelandic landscapes and the family's cosy yet practical interiors are exquisitely captured by the writer and director Pálmason, who also acts as cinematographer.
Perhaps its closest comparators might be Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure and Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, but The Love That Remains occupies a cinematic space entirely its own. Meditative, spiky, amusing, bizarre and quite beautiful, Hlynur Pálmason has pulled off a strange magic trick of a movie, full of peculiar charm as it balances the mundane and the inexplicable.
The result is a breath of fresh Icelandic air: a film that stimulates aesthetically, psychologically and emotionally. Boasting 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is not to be missed on the big screen. You won't see anything quite like it this year, or maybe next (or probably even the year after).
7.20PM WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2ND
SOUTHLAND TALES
THE CANNES CUT
20TH ANNIVERSARY
2K RESTORATION
Director Richard Kelly's follow-up to his debut feature Donnie Darko is the entirely remarkable but largely misunderstood Southland Tales. A response to the post-9/11 world and its new absurd political realities, this sprawling Los Angeles near-future dystopian black comedy thriller was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival to a disastrous reception. In a panic, the film was hastily re-edited, losing much of its core, and released to the public, only to be promptly dismissed.
Just as Donnie Darko slowly established a reputation as a bona fide cult classic over time after its own forgettable cinema run, something similar is beginning to happen with Southland Tales. What was once seen as a misguided, messy take on Bush-era policies has slowly become a prophetic and ever-more-relevant social commentary.
The story, set in 2008, sees the United States standing on the brink of social, economic, and environmental disaster, in the midst of a Fourth of July heatwave weekend. Action movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) finds himself suffering from amnesia as his life intertwines with pornstar Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who is developing her own reality TV show tackling the big subjects of terrorism, crime, poverty, and, yes, teen horniness. Added to this mix is LAPD officer Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), whose identity seems to have been split in two.
Beguiling and baffling, Southland Tales is the ultimate postmodern film, concerned with the direction of capitalism intersecting with right-wing politics, the surveillance state, celebrity, and influencer culture predicting things as disparate as the Cybertruck, the Strait of Hormuz blockade and even the Rock being taken seriously as an actor. Everything from live-streaming and faux-progressive tech barons to ineffectual left-wing activist groups is lampooned in a world populated by Kelly's ultra-deliberate casting choices, including then-pro-wrestler The Rock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Stiffler from American Pie, alongside two pop stars (Mandy Moore and Justin Timberlake), as well as a host of brilliantly offbeat character actors and comedians including Nora Dunn (SNL), Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Bai Ling (The Crow), Jon Lovitz (SNL), Cheri Oteri (SNL), Amy Poehler (SNL), Miranda Richardson (Blackadder), Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride), and well-known film director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Mallrats).
A maximalist satirical take on an ever-more-ludicrous USA, Southland Tales has finally come of age and is now ripe for rediscovery as we screen the original and uncompromised 'Cannes Cut'. The film calls to mind other political madcap masterpieces like Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, and even Alejandro Iñárritu's latest film Digger.
A rip-roaring hybrid of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick sensibilities, with an almost hypnotic mix of grandeur, etherealness, and downright absurdist, Republican Party-fuelled phantasmagoria. Miss the Cannes Cut at your peril.
MORE
SCREENINGS
ON THEIR WAY
IN 2026
SIGN UP FOR NEWS
TO BE KEPT UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS PLUS EXCLUSIVE OFFERS & DISCOUNTS SIGN UP TO OUR MAILING LIST NOW!
*By submitting your e-mail you agree with our privacy policy.
“INTERESTING, FUN, UNUSUAL, OVERLOOKED CINEMA, CLASSIC AND NEW, SCREENING
ALL YEAR ROUND.”
